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Crossing America is an interactive reading, writing, and grammar text that focuses on competencies that skilled readers and writers must master. The text follows a thematic approach designed to provide cultural knowledge and awareness both to native speakers of English and to the limited-English language population.
Contents
Unit OneWelcome MessageIntroduction to Reading Literature and Writing About LiteratureStudent Essay Entitled "I Wanted to Share My Father's World"How to Read Any Passage Effectively"Student Commencement Address at Southwest Tennessee Community College" by Andy LingLiterary Analysis"The Story of an Hour" by Kate ChopinSummarizingHow to Write a SummaryParaphrasingHow to ParaphrasePlagiarismSQ9R - A Writing Strategy That WorksUnit Two: American Foundations (Narration)Idioms for a New NationNarration: Points to ConsiderPurposePoint of ViewToneInferenceOrder of SentencesTransitional Devices Used in Narrative WritingVerb UsageOrganizationSentence Structure ErrorsDirect and Indirect QuotationsVerb TenseReading Before Writing "Constitution Day" by Lynne V. Cheney Jacques Lajonie Lapeyre Correspondence...Excerpts"Follow the Drinking Gourd" by Anonymous "Water Bugs" by Peter Blue CloudReflective AssignmentsInternet Field Trips - Reading and Writing AssignmentsFilms to ViewSummary of Unit 2 - American Foundations - NarrationUnit Three: Traditions and Celebrations (Description) Idioms for Holidays and CelebrationsDescription: Points to ConsiderPurposeTypes of Descriptive WritingOrganizationTransitional Devices Used in Descriptive WritingConcrete Language Versus Vague and Abstract WordingMisplaced Modifiers and Dangling ParticiplesReading Before Writing"El Olto Lado" from Caramelo by SandraCisneros"Packing for America" by Frank McCourt (Life)"Slightly Damp, Parade Goers Still Dressed for the Occasion" by Charles Cochran "Day of the Refugios" by Alberto RiosReflective AssignmentsInternet Field Trips - Reading and Writing AssignmentsFilms to ViewSummary of Unit 3 - Traditions and Celebrations - Description Unit Four: American Folklore (Comparison and Contrast) Idioms for American FolkloreComparison and Contrast: Points to ConsiderPurposeToneTransitional DevicesOrganizationTopic Sentences and thesis StatementsPunctuation of Conjunctive Adverbs and Subordinate ConjunctionsReading Before Writing"What is Folklife?" Excerpts from "A Commonwealth of Cultures" by Mary Hufford "Tam and Cam (A Cinderella Tale from Vietnam)" by Anonymous"The Invisible One" (A Cinderella-style Micmac Native legend.) from Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton"Present at Creation: The Origins of the Legend of John Henry" by Stephen Wade"John Henry" by Zora Neal Hurston "John Henry Blues" by Fiddlin' Joe Carson"Babe the Blue Ox" retold by S. E. Schlosser"Six to Eight Black Men" by David SedarisReflective AssignmentsInternet Field Trips - Reading and Writing AssignmentsFilms to ViewSummary of Unit 4 - American Folklore - Comparison and ContrastUnit Five: Landmarks (Process Analysis) Idioms for LandmarksProcess Analysis: Points to ConsiderPurposeTypes of Process WritingOrganizationTransitional DevicesPoint of View and TensePoint of ViewReading Before Writing "Jaunts: Atlanta to Montgomery to Memphis: A Family Trip Through History" by Carlton Winfrey"A and P" by John Updike"A Chinese Kitchen" by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo"Telling the Story" by Naomi Shihab Nye "In the inner city" by Lucille Clifton Reflective AssignmentsInternet Field Trips - Reading and Writing AssignmentsFilms to ViewSummary of Unit 5 - Landmarks - Process Analysis Unit Six: American Music (Classification)Idioms for Classical MusicClassification: Points to ConsiderPurposeOrganization and DevelopmentTransitional DevicesParallelismReading Before Writing "Types of Folk Music" by Sarah Wilfong"I Hear America Singing" from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman"La Musica Mexicana" by Ellen Jane Rainey"Nineteen Fifty-Five" by Alice WalkerReflective AssignmentsInternet Field Trips - Reading and Writing AssignmentsFilms to ViewSummary of Unit 6 - American Music - ClassificationUnit Seven: American Lifestyle (Cause and Effect)Idioms for American LifestylesCause and Effect: Points to ConsiderPurposeOrganization and PlanOrder of Causes and EffectsClear ReasoningTransitional WordsToneFragments with Subordinate ClausesReading Before Writing"How Things Work" by Gary Soto"Vietnam to America: An 18-hour Flight, or an Impossible Journey?" by Andrew Lam"Hoofbeats on Fletcher Street" by Johnny Dwyer "Ringtail" by Rudolph Fisher Reflective AssignmentsInternet Field Trips - Reading and Writing AssignmentsFilms to ViewSummary of Unit 7 - American Lifestyle - Cause and Effect AnalysisUnit Eight: New Frontiers (Argumentation) Idioms for New FrontiersArgumentation: Points to ConsiderPurposeOrganization and PlanArgumentative ParagraphsArgumentative EssaysTransitional ExpressionsLanguage and ToneEmotion and ReasonPlagiarismStrong VerbsReading Before Writing"Act II" by Diane Brady"There'll Be No Place to Hide in Our Brave New Biometric World" by Paul Saffo"Technology and Medicine" by Rafael Campo from The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World by Raphael Campo"The End of the Beginning" by Ray Bradbury"Astronauts, Teachers Converse at Ames" by Julie O'Shea "From Space Station, NASA Astronaut Ed Lu '84 Speaks with CU Students" by Blaine P. Friedlander Jr.Reflective AssignmentsInternet Field Trips - Reading and Writing AssignmentsFilms to ViewSummary of Unit 8 - New Frontiers - Argumentation
